single-celled
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The single-celled organisms use the power of the sun to produce energy through photosynthesis, similar to houseplants on your balcony.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
The research draws inspiration from single-celled slime molds that self-organize when starving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025
These single-celled algae, which contain chlorophyll, float in the sunlit layers of the sea and are coated with calcium carbonate plates known as coccoliths.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2025
A slime mould consists of mobile, single-celled, amoeba-like organisms that live independently but can come together to function as a single entity in order to find food and reproduce.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025
The Earth Woman was eleven years old, Chacko said, when the first single-celled organisms appeared.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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